Eco Group
Room 4 have been experiencing gardening.
We are so lucky to have our own planter containers right outside our classroom.
We dug, moved and patted the soil as we planted the crocuses.
Over the last year everyone at Orchard Brae has working very hard on developing our Eco awareness as part of our Eco Schools journey and we have participated in a range of activities based around the topics of Litter, Waste Minimisation and Food and the Environment.
We conducted litter picks in the local area as well as in the school grounds, planted seeds and bulbs and cared for the plants, and made soup from our bumper crop of tatties grown in the school garden. The work that classes put into the Rag Bag scheme and Orchard Brae Fashion Boutique was recognised with a nomination for the Aberdeen City Council EcoCity Waste and Recycling Champions Award and while we were not the winners of the categories, we were rewarded with a certificate for our hard work and effort.
We are absolutely delighted that all of our hard work and effort has been recognised and we have reached the gold standard and been awarded our first Green Flag!
The Green Flag Award is presented to nurseries and schools which have demonstrated a commitment to Eco-Schools Scotland programme and usually takes place over two years. We are so proud that our Eco work has managed to get our first Green flag awarded in just one year!
We have been truly amazed by the comments we received from the Eco-School Scotland Team who noted that our action plan and evidence ‘was innovative and engaging’, ‘demonstrated a true commitment to improve the environment’ and ‘our dedication to embedding sustainability within the curriculum’. They also highlighted aspects of our work as ‘examples of good practice’ which may be used as future case studies to support other schools.
A huge well done to all the students and staff for their on-going work and effort in enabling us to achieve our first Green Flag in one year.
Orchard Brae School is participating in the Eco-Schools Scotland award scheme. Eco-Schools is a global programme which promotes sustainable development education, connecting millions of children across 67 countries worldwide.
Eco-Schools Scotland is designed to encourage whole-school community action and the programme encourages young people to engage in their environment by allowing them the opportunity to actively protect it. The programme starts in the classroom and expands to the whole school, eventually fostering change in the community at large.
As Part of an SQA module and class recycling we are making Eco Bricks this year.
We are going to make the bricks into a table for our summer snacks outside.
